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diff --git a/old/19002.txt b/old/19002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a9a109 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/19002.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2476 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Alice's Adventures Under Ground, by Lewis Carroll + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Alice's Adventures Under Ground + +Author: Lewis Carroll + +Release Date: August 7, 2006 [EBook #19002] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND *** + + + + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + ALICE'S ADVENTURES + UNDER GROUND + + + + _BEING A FACSIMILE OF THE_ + _ORIGINAL MS. BOOK_ + _AFTERWARDS DEVELOPED INTO_ + "_ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND_" + + + + BY + + LEWIS CARROLL + + + _WITH THIRTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS + BY THE AUTHOR_ + + + _PRICE FOUR SHILLINGS_ + + + London + + MACMILLAN AND CO. + AND NEW YORK + 1886 + + * * * * * + + + + +CONTENTS. + + +CHAPTER + + I. DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. THE POOL OF TEARS + + II. A LONG TALE. THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL + +III. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR + + IV. THE QUEEN'S CROQUET-GROUND. THE MOCK TURTLE'S STORY. THE +LOBSTER QUADRILLE. WHO STOLE THE TARTS? + + * * * * * + + + + +Chapter 1 + +[Illustration] + + +Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on +the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had +peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no +pictures or conversations in it, and where is the use of a book, +thought Alice, without pictures or conversations? So she was +considering in her own mind, (as well as she could, for the hot +day made her feel very sleepy and stupid,) whether the pleasure +of making a daisy-chain was worth the trouble of getting up and +picking the daisies, when a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close +by her. + +There was nothing very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it +so very much out of the way to hear the rabbit say to itself +"dear, dear! I shall be too late!" (when she thought it over +afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at +this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the +rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, looked +at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it +flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit +with either a waistcoat-pocket or a watch to take out of it, and, +full of curiosity, she hurried across the field after it, and was +just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the +hedge. In a moment down went Alice after it, never once +considering how in the world she was to get out again. + +The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and +then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly, that Alice had not a +moment to think about stopping herself, before she found herself +falling down what seemed a deep well. Either the well was very +deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she +went down to look about her, and to wonder what would happen +next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was +coming to, but it was too dark to see anything: then, she looked +at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with +cupboards and book-shelves: here and there were maps and pictures +hung on pegs. She took a jar down off one of the shelves as she +passed: it was labelled "Orange Marmalade," but to her great +disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar, +for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it +into one of the cupboards as she fell past it. + +"Well!" thought Alice to herself, "after such a fall as this, I +shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll +all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even +if I fell off the top of the house!" (which was most likely +true.) + +Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? "I wonder +how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said aloud, "I must +be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: +that would be four thousand miles down, I think--" (for you see +Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in +the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity +of showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to hear her, +still it was good practice to say it over,) "yes that's the right +distance, but then what Longitude or Latitude-line shall I be +in?" (Alice had no idea what Longitude was, or Latitude either, +but she thought they were nice grand words to say.) + +Presently she began again: "I wonder if I shall fall right +through the earth! How funny it'll be to come out among the +people that walk with their heads downwards! But I shall have to +ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, +Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?"--and she tried to +curtsey as she spoke (fancy curtseying as you're falling through +the air! do you think you could manage it?) "and what an ignorant +little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to +ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere." + +Down, down, down: there was nothing else to do, so Alice soon +began talking again. "Dinah will miss me very much tonight, I +should think!" (Dinah was the cat.) "I hope they'll remember her +saucer of milk at tea-time! Oh, dear Dinah, I wish I had you +here! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might +catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know, my dear. But +do cats eat bats, I wonder?" And here Alice began to get rather +sleepy, and kept on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way +"do cats eat bats? do cats eat bats?" and sometimes, "do bats +eat cats?" for, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't +much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing +off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in +hand with Dinah, and was saying to her very earnestly, "Now, +Dinah, my dear, tell me the truth. Did you ever eat a bat?" when +suddenly, bump! bump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and +shavings, and the fall was over. + +Alice was not a bit hurt, and jumped on to her feet directly: she +looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another +long passage, and the white rabbit was still in sight, hurrying +down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like +the wind, and just heard it say, as it turned a corner, "my ears +and whiskers, how late it's getting!" She turned the corner after +it, and instantly found herself in a long, low hall, lit up by a +row of lamps which hung from the roof. + +[Illustration] + +There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked, +and when Alice had been all round it, and tried them all, she +walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get +out again: suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, +all made of solid glass; there was nothing lying upon it, but a +tiny golden key, and Alice's first idea was that it might belong +to one of the doors of the hall, but alas! either the locks were +too large, or the key too small, but at any rate it would open +none of them. However, on the second time round, she came to a +low curtain, behind which was a door about eighteen inches high: +she tried the little key in the keyhole, and it fitted! Alice +opened the door, and looked down a small passage, not larger than +a rat-hole, into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she +longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those +beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could +not even get her head through the doorway, "and even if my head +would go through," thought poor Alice, "it would be very little +use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a +telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin." For, +you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that +Alice began to think very few things indeed were really +impossible. + +There was nothing else to do, so she went back to the table, half +hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of +rules for shutting up people like telescopes: this time there was +a little bottle on it--"which certainly was not there before" +said Alice--and tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper +label with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it in large +letters. + +It was all very well to say "drink me," "but I'll look first," +said the wise little Alice, "and see whether the bottle's marked +"poison" or not," for Alice had read several nice little stories +about children that got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and +other unpleasant things, because they would not remember the +simple rules their friends had given them, such as, that, if you +get into the fire, it will burn you, and that, if you cut your +finger very deeply with a knife, it generally bleeds, and she +had never forgotten that, if you drink a bottle marked "poison," +it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. + +However, this bottle was not marked poison, so Alice tasted it, +and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed +flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffy, +and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off. + + * * * * * + +"What a curious feeling!" said Alice, "I must be shutting up like +a telescope." + +It was so indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face +brightened up as it occurred to her that she was now the right +size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. +First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see whether she +was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about +this, "for it might end, you know," said Alice to herself, "in my +going out altogether, like a candle, and what should I be like +then, I wonder?" and she tried to fancy what the flame of a +candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not +remember having ever seen one. However, nothing more happened so +she decided on going into the garden at once, but, alas for poor +Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the +little golden key, and when she went back to the table for the +key, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it +plainly enough through the glass, and she tried her best to climb +up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery, and +when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing +sat down and cried. + +[Illustration] + +"Come! there's no use in crying!" said Alice to herself rather +sharply, "I advise you to leave off this minute!" (she generally +gave herself very good advice, and sometimes scolded herself so +severely as to bring tears into her eyes, and once she remembered +boxing her own ears for having been unkind to herself in a game +of croquet she was playing with herself, for this curious child +was very fond of pretending to be two people,) "but it's no use +now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, +there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!" + +Soon her eyes fell on a little ebony box lying under the table: +she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which was +lying a card with the words EAT ME beautifully printed on it in +large letters. "I'll eat," said Alice, "and if it makes me +larger, I can reach the key, and if it makes me smaller, I can +creep under the door, so either way I'll get into the garden, and +I don't care which happens!" + +She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself "which way? +which way?" and laid her hand on the top of her head to feel +which way it was growing, and was quite surprised to find that +she remained the same size: to be sure this is what generally +happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got into the way of +expecting nothing but out-of-the way things to happen, and it +seemed quite dull and stupid for things to go on in the common +way. + +So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. + + * * * * * + +"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice, (she was so surprised +that she quite forgot how to speak good English,) "now I'm +opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, +feet!" (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed almost +out of sight, they were getting so far off,) "oh, my poor little +feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you +now, dears? I'm sure I can't! I shall be a great deal too far off +to bother myself about you: you must manage the best way you +can--but I must be kind to them," thought Alice, "or perhaps they +won't walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new +pair of boots every Christmas." + +[Illustration] + +And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it +"they must go by the carrier," she thought, "and how funny it'll +seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the +directions will look! ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ. + THE CARPET, + with ALICE'S LOVE + +oh dear! what nonsense I am talking!" + +Just at this moment, her head struck against the roof of the +hall: in fact, she was now rather more than nine feet high, and +she at once took up the little golden key, and hurried off to the +garden door. + +Poor Alice! it was as much as she could do, lying down on one +side, to look through into the garden with one eye, but to get +through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and cried +again. + +"You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Alice, "a great girl +like you," (she might well say this,) "to cry in this way! Stop +this instant, I tell you!" But she cried on all the same, +shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool, about +four inches deep, all round her, and reaching half way across the +hall. After a time, she heard a little pattering of feet in the +distance, and dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the +white rabbit coming back again, splendidly dressed, with a pair +of white kid gloves in one hand, and a nosegay in the other. +Alice was ready to ask help of any one, she felt so desperate, +and as the rabbit passed her, she said, in a low, timid voice, +"If you please, Sir--" the rabbit started violently, looked up +once into the roof of the hall, from which the voice seemed to +come, and then dropped the nosegay and the white kid gloves, and +skurried away into the darkness, as hard as it could go. + +[Illustration] + +Alice took up the nosegay and gloves, and found the nosegay so +delicious that she kept smelling at it all the time she went on +talking to herself--"dear, dear! how queer everything is today! +and yesterday everything happened just as usual: I wonder if I +was changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got +up this morning? I think I remember feeling rather different. +But if I'm not the same, who in the world am I? Ah, that's the +great puzzle!" And she began thinking over all the children she +knew of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been +changed for any of them. + +"I'm sure I'm not Gertrude," she said, "for her hair goes in such +long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all--and I'm +sure I ca'n't be Florence, for I know all sorts of things, and +she, oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, she's she, and +I'm I, and--oh dear! how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know +all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is +twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is +fourteen--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at this rate! But +the Multiplication Table don't signify--let's try Geography. +London is the capital of France, and Rome is the capital of +Yorkshire, and Paris--oh dear! dear! that's all wrong, I'm +certain! I must have been changed for Florence! I'll try and say +"How doth the little,"" and she crossed her hands on her lap, +and began, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the +words did not sound the same as they used to do: + + "How doth the little crocodile + Improve its shining tail, + And pour the waters of the Nile + On every golden scale! + + "How cheerfully it seems to grin! + How neatly spreads its claws! + And welcomes little fishes in + With gently-smiling jaws!" + +"I'm sure those are not the right words," said poor Alice, and +her eyes filled with tears as she thought "I must be Florence +after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little +house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so +many lessons to learn! No! I've made up my mind about it: if I'm +Florence, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting +their heads down and saying 'come up, dear!' I shall only look +up and say 'who am I then? answer me that first, and then, if I +like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here +till I'm somebody else--but, oh dear!" cried Alice with a sudden +burst of tears, "I do wish they would put their heads down! I am +so tired of being all alone here!" + +As she said this, she looked down at her hands, and was surprised +to find she had put on one of the rabbit's little gloves while +she was talking. "How can I have done that?" thought she, "I must +be growing small again." She got up and went to the table to +measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could +guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on +shrinking rapidly: soon she found out that the reason of it was +the nosegay she held in her hand: she dropped it hastily, just in +time to save herself from shrinking away altogether, and found +that she was now only three inches high. + +"Now for the garden!" cried Alice, as she hurried back to the +little door, but the little door was locked again, and the little +gold key was lying on the glass table as before, and "things are +worse than ever!" thought the poor little girl, "for I never was +as small as this before, never! And I declare it's too bad, it +is!" + +[Illustration] + +At this moment her foot slipped, and splash! she was up to her +chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she had fallen into +the sea: then she remembered that she was under ground, and she +soon made out that it was the pool of tears she had wept when she +was nine feet high. "I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, +as she swam about, trying to find her way out, "I shall be +punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! +Well! that'll be a queer thing, to be sure! However, every thing +is queer today." Very soon she saw something splashing about in +the pool near her: at first she thought it must be a walrus or a +hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was herself, +and soon made out that it was only a mouse, that had slipped in +like herself. + +"Would it be any use, now," thought Alice, "to speak to this +mouse? The rabbit is something quite out-of-the-way, no doubt, +and so have I been, ever since I came down here, but that is no +reason why the mouse should not be able to talk. I think I may as +well try." + +So she began: "oh Mouse, do you know how to get out of this pool? +I am very tired of swimming about here, oh Mouse!" The mouse +looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink +with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing. + +[Illustration] + +"Perhaps it doesn't understand English," thought Alice; "I +daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the +Conqueror!" (for, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had +no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened,) so she +began again: "ou est ma chatte?" which was the first sentence out +of her French lesson-book. The mouse gave a sudden jump in the +pool, and seemed to quiver with fright: "oh, I beg your pardon!" +cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's +feelings, "I quite forgot you didn't like cats!" + +"Not like cats!" cried the mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice, +"would you like cats if you were me?" + +"Well, perhaps not," said Alice in a soothing tone, "don't be +angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I +think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She +is such a dear quiet thing," said Alice, half to herself, as she +swam lazily about in the pool, "she sits purring so nicely by the +fire, licking her paws and washing her face: and she is such a +nice soft thing to nurse, and she's such a capital one for +catching mice--oh! I beg your pardon!" cried poor Alice again, +for this time the mouse was bristling all over, and she felt +certain that it was really offended, "have I offended you?" + +"Offended indeed!" cried the mouse, who seemed to be positively +trembling with rage, "our family always hated cats! Nasty, low, +vulgar things! Don't talk to me about them any more!" + +"I won't indeed!" said Alice, in a great hurry to change the +conversation, "are you--are you--fond of--dogs?" The mouse did +not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: "there is such a nice +little dog near our house I should like to show you! A little +bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh! such long curly brown +hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit +up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I ca'n't +remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, and he says it +kills all the rats and--oh dear!" said Alice sadly, "I'm afraid +I've offended it again!" for the mouse was swimming away from her +as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool +as it went. + +So she called softly after it: "mouse dear! Do come back again, +and we won't talk about cats and dogs any more, if you don't like +them!" When the mouse heard this, it turned and swam slowly back +to her: its face was quite pale, (with passion, Alice thought,) +and it said in a trembling low voice "let's get to the shore, and +then I'll tell you my history, and you'll understand why it is I +hate cats and dogs." + +It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite full of +birds and animals that had fallen into it. There was a Duck and a +Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. +Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore. + +[Illustration] + + + + +Chapter II + +[Illustration] + + +They were indeed a curious looking party that assembled on the +bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their +fur clinging close to them--all dripping wet, cross, and +uncomfortable. The first question of course was, how to get dry: +they had a consultation about this, and Alice hardly felt at all +surprised at finding herself talking familiarly with the birds, +as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a +long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would +only say "I am older than you, and must know best," and this +Alice would not admit without knowing how old the Lory was, and +as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was nothing +more to be said. + +At last the mouse, who seemed to have some authority among them, +called out "sit down, all of you, and attend to me! I'll soon +make you dry enough!" They all sat down at once, shivering, in a +large ring, Alice in the middle, with her eyes anxiously fixed on +the mouse, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she +did not get dry very soon. + +"Ahem!" said the mouse, with a self-important air, "are you all +ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you +please! + +"William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was +soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had +been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin +and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--" + +"Ugh!" said the Lory with a shiver. + +"I beg your pardon?" said the mouse, frowning, but very politely, +"did you speak?" + +"Not I!" said the Lory hastily. + +"I thought you did," said the mouse, "I proceed. Edwin and +Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him; +and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found +it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer +him the crown. William's conduct was at first moderate--how are +you getting on now, dear?" said the mouse, turning to Alice as it +spoke. + +"As wet as ever," said poor Alice, "it doesn't seem to dry me at +all." + +"In that case," said the Dodo solemnly, rising to his feet, "I +move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more +energetic remedies--" + +"Speak English!" said the Duck, "I don't know the meaning of half +those long words, and what's more, I don't believe you do +either!" And the Duck quacked a comfortable laugh to itself. Some +of the other birds tittered audibly. + +"I only meant to say," said the Dodo in a rather offended tone, +"that I know of a house near here, where we could get the young +lady and the rest of the party dried, and then we could listen +comfortably to the story which I think you were good enough to +promise to tell us," bowing gravely to the mouse. + +The mouse made no objection to this, and the whole party moved +along the river bank, (for the pool had by this time began to +flow out of the hall, and the edge of it was fringed with rushes +and forget-me-nots,) in a slow procession, the Dodo leading the +way. After a time the Dodo became impatient, and, leaving the +Duck to bring up the rest of the party, moved on at a quicker +pace with Alice, the Lory, and the Eaglet, and soon brought them +to a little cottage, and there they sat snugly by the fire, +wrapped up in blankets, until the rest of the party had arrived, +and they were all dry again. + +Then they all sat down again in a large ring on the bank, and +begged the mouse to begin his story. + +"Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the mouse, turning to +Alice, and sighing. + +"It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with +wonder at the mouse's tail, which was coiled nearly all round the +party, "but why do you call it sad?" and she went on puzzling +about this as the mouse went on speaking, so that her idea of the +tale was something like this: + +We lived beneath the mat + Warm and snug and fat + But one woe, & that + Was the cat! + To our joys + a clog, In + our eyes a + fog, On our + hearts a log + Was the dog! + When the + cat's away, + Then + the mice + will + play, + But, alas! + one day, (So they say) + Came the dog and + cat, Hunting + for a + rat, + Crushed + the mice + all flat; + Each + one + as + he + sat. + U + n + d + e + r + n + e + a + t + h + + t + h + e + + m + a + t + , + m r a W + g u n s & + t a f & + T h i n k? +o f t h a t! + +"You are not attending!" said the mouse to Alice severely, "what +are you thinking of?" + +"I beg your pardon," said Alice very humbly, "you had got to the +fifth bend, I think?" + +"I had not!" cried the mouse, sharply and very angrily. + +"A knot!" said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and +looking anxiously about her, "oh, do let me help to undo it!" + +"I shall do nothing of the sort!" said the mouse, getting up and +walking away from the party, "you insult me by talking such +nonsense!" + +"I didn't mean it!" pleaded poor Alice, "but you're so easily +offended, you know." + +The mouse only growled in reply. + +"Please come back and finish your story!" Alice called after it, +and the others all joined in chorus "yes, please do!" but the +mouse only shook its ears, and walked quickly away, and was soon +out of sight. + +"What a pity it wouldn't stay!" sighed the Lory, and an old Crab +took the opportunity of saying to its daughter "Ah, my dear! let +this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!" "Hold your +tongue, Ma!" said the young Crab, a little snappishly, "you're +enough to try the patience of an oyster!" + +"I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!" said Alice aloud, +addressing no one in particular, "she'd soon fetch it back!" + +"And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?" said +the Lory. + +[Illustration] + +Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her +pet, "Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for catching +mice, you can't think! And oh! I wish you could see her after the +birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!" + +This answer caused a remarkable sensation among the party: some +of the birds hurried off at once; one old magpie began wrapping +itself up very carefully, remarking "I really must be getting +home: the night air does not suit my throat," and a canary called +out in a trembling voice to its children "come away from her, my +dears, she's no fit company for you!" On various pretexts, they +all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone. + +[Illustration] + +She sat for some while sorrowful and silent, but she was not long +before she recovered her spirits, and began talking to herself +again as usual: "I do wish some of them had stayed a little +longer! and I was getting to be such friends with them--really +the Lory and I were almost like sisters! and so was that dear +little Eaglet! And then the Duck and the Dodo! How nicely the +Duck sang to us as we came along through the water: and if the +Dodo hadn't known the way to that nice little cottage, I don't +know when we should have got dry again--" and there is no knowing +how long she might have prattled on in this way, if she had not +suddenly caught the sound of pattering feet. + +It was the white rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking +anxiously about it as it went, as if it had lost something, and she +heard it muttering to itself "the Marchioness! the Marchioness! oh +my dear paws! oh my fur and whiskers! She'll have me executed, as +sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I +wonder?" Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the +nosegay and the pair of white kid gloves, and she began hunting for +them, but they were now nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to +have changed since her swim in the pool, and her walk along the +river-bank with its fringe of rushes and forget-me-nots, and the +glass table and the little door had vanished. + +Soon the rabbit noticed Alice, as she stood looking curiously +about her, and at once said in a quick angry tone, "why, Mary +Ann! what are you doing out here? Go home this moment, and look +on my dressing-table for my gloves and nosegay, and fetch them +here, as quick as you can run, do you hear?" and Alice was so +much frightened that she ran off at once, without saying a word, +in the direction which the rabbit had pointed out. + +She soon found herself in front of a neat little house, on the +door of which was a bright brass plate with the name W. RABBIT, +ESQ. She went in, and hurried upstairs, for fear she should meet +the real Mary Ann and be turned out of the house before she had +found the gloves: she knew that one pair had been lost in the +hall, "but of course," thought Alice, "it has plenty more of them +in its house. How queer it seems to be going messages for a +rabbit! I suppose Dinah'll be sending me messages next!" And she +began fancying the sort of things that would happen: "Miss Alice! +come here directly and get ready for your walk!" "Coming in a +minute, nurse! but I've got to watch this mousehole till Dinah +comes back, and see that the mouse doesn't get out--" "only I +don't think," Alice went on, "that they'd let Dinah stop in the +house, if it began ordering people about like that!" + +[Illustration] + +By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room, with a +table in the window on which was a looking-glass and, (as Alice had +hoped,) two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up a +pair of gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye +fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass: there +was no label on it this time with the words "drink me," but +nonetheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips: "I know +something interesting is sure to happen," she said to herself, +"whenever I eat or drink anything, so I'll see what this bottle +does. I do hope it'll make me grow larger, for I'm quite tired of +being such a tiny little thing!" + +[Illustration] + +It did so indeed, and much sooner than she expected: before she +had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against +the ceiling, and she stooped to save her neck from being broken, +and hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself "that's quite +enough--I hope I sha'n't grow any more--I wish I hadn't drunk so +much!" + +[Illustration] + +Alas! it was too late: she went on growing and growing, and very +soon had to kneel down: in another minute there was not room even +for this, and she tried the effect of lying down, with one elbow +against the door, and the other arm curled round her head. Still +she went on growing, and as a last resource she put one arm out +of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself +"now I can do no more--what will become of me?" + +Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full +effect, and she grew no larger; still it was very uncomfortable, +and as there seemed to be no sort of chance of ever getting out +of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy. "It was much +pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always +growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and +rabbits--I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole, and +yet, and yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life. I +do wonder what can have happened to me! When I used to read +fairy-tales, I fancied that sort of thing never happened, and now +here I am in the middle of one! There out to be a book written +about me, that there ought! and when I grow up I'll write +one--but I'm grown up now" said she in a sorrowful tone, "at +least there's no room to grow up any more here." + +[Illustration] + +"But then," thought Alice, "shall I never get any older than I +am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old +woman--but then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn't +like that!" + +"Oh, you foolish Alice!" she said again, "how can you learn +lessons in here? Why, there's hardly room for you, and no room at +all for any lesson-books!" + +And so she went on, taking first one side, and then the other, +and making quite a conversation of it altogether, but after a few +minutes she heard a voice outside, which made her stop to listen. + +"Mary Ann! Mary Ann!" said the voice, "fetch me my gloves this +moment!" Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs: +Alice knew it was the rabbit coming to look for her, and she +trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was +now about a thousand times as large as the rabbit, and had no +reason to be afraid of it. Presently the rabbit came to the door, +and tried to open it, but as it opened inwards, and Alice's elbow +was against it, the attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say +to itself "then I'll go round and get in at the window." + +"That you wo'n't!" thought Alice, and, after waiting till she +fancied she heard the rabbit, just under the window, she suddenly +spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. She did not +get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall +and a crash of breaking glass, from which she concluded that it +was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or +something of the sort. + +[Illustration] + +Next came an angry voice--the rabbit's--"Pat, Pat! where are +you?" And then a voice she had never heard before, "shure then +I'm here! digging for apples, anyway, yer honour!" + +"Digging for apples indeed!" said the rabbit angrily, "here, come +and help me out of this!"--Sound of more breaking glass. + +"Now, tell me, Pat, what is that coming out of the window?" + +"Shure it's an arm, yer honour!" (He pronounced it "arrum".) + +"An arm, you goose! Who ever saw an arm that size? Why, it fills +the whole window, don't you see?" + +"Shure, it does, yer honour, but it's an arm for all that." + +"Well, it's no business there: go and take it away!" + +There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear +whispers now and then, such as "shure I don't like it, yer +honour, at all at all!" "do as I tell you, you coward!" and at +last she spread out her hand again and made another snatch in the +air. This time there were two little shrieks, and more breaking +glass--"what a number of cucumber-frames there must be!" thought +Alice, "I wonder what they'll do next! As for pulling me out of +the window, I only wish they could! I'm sure I don't want to stop +in here any longer!" + +She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last +came a rumbling of little cart-wheels, and the sound of a good +many voices all talking together: she made out the words "where's +the other ladder?--why, I hadn't to bring but one, Bill's got the +other--here, put 'em up at this corner--no, tie 'em together +first--they don't reach high enough yet--oh, they'll do well +enough, don't be particular--here, Bill! catch hold of this +rope--will the roof bear?--mind that loose slate--oh, it's coming +down! heads below!--" (a loud crash) "now, who did that?--it was +Bill, I fancy--who's to go down the chimney?--nay, I sha'n't! you +do it!--that I won't then--Bill's got to go down--here, Bill! the +master says you've to go down the chimney!" + +"Oh, so Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?" said Alice +to herself, "why, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I +wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal: the fireplace is a +pretty tight one, but I think I can kick a little!" + +She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and +waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess what +sort it was) scratching and scrambling in the chimney close above +her: then, saying to herself "this is Bill," she gave one sharp +kick, and waited again to see what would happen next. + +[Illustration] + +The first thing was a general chorus of "there goes Bill!" then +the rabbit's voice alone "catch him, you by the hedge!" then +silence, and then another confusion of voices, "how was it, old +fellow? what happened to you? tell us all about it." + +Last came a little feeble squeaking voice, ("that's Bill" thought +Alice,) which said "well, I hardly know--I'm all of a fluster +myself--something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and the +next minute up I goes like a rocket!" "And so you did, old +fellow!" said the other voices. + +"We must burn the house down!" said the voice of the rabbit, and +Alice called out as loud as she could "if you do, I'll set Dinah +at you!" This caused silence again, and while Alice was thinking +"but how can I get Dinah here?" she found to her great delight +that she was getting smaller: very soon she was able to get up +out of the uncomfortable position in which she had been lying, +and in two or three minutes more she was once more three inches +high. + +She ran out of the house as quick as she could, and found quite a +crowd of little animals waiting outside--guinea-pigs, white mice, +squirrels, and "Bill" a little green lizard, that was being +supported in the arms of one of the guinea-pigs, while another +was giving it something out of a bottle. They all made a rush at +her the moment she appeared, but Alice ran her hardest, and soon +found herself in a thick wood. + +[Illustration] + + + + +Chapter III + +[Illustration] + + +"The first thing I've got to do," said Alice to herself, as she +wandered about in the wood, "is to grow to my right size, and the +second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. I think +that will be the best plan." + +It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and +simply arranged: the only difficulty was, that she had not the +smallest idea how to set about it, and while she was peering +anxiously among the trees round her, a little sharp bark just +over her head made her look up in a great hurry. + +An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, +and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to reach her: "poor +thing!" said Alice in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to +whistle to it, but she was terribly alarmed all the while at the +thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would probably +devour her in spite of all her coaxing. Hardly knowing what she +did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the +puppy: whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at +once, and with a yelp of delight rushed at the stick, and made +believe to worry it then Alice dodged behind a great thistle to +keep herself from being run over, and, the moment she appeared at +the other side, the puppy made another dart at the stick, and +tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold: then Alice, +thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, +and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round +the thistle again: then the puppy begin a series of short charges +at the stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a +long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it +sat down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of +its mouth, and its great eyes half shut. + +This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape. +She set off at once, and ran till the puppy's bark sounded quite +faint in the distance, and till she was quite tired and out of +breath. + +"And yet what a dear little puppy it was!" said Alice, as she +leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself +with her hat. "I should have liked teaching it tricks, if--if I'd +only been the right size to do it! Oh! I'd nearly forgotten that +I've got to grow up again! Let me see; how _is_ it to be managed? +I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other, but the +great question is what?" + +The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round +her at the flowers and the blades of grass but could not see +anything that looked like the right thing to eat under the +circumstances. There was a large mushroom near her, about the +same height as herself, and when she had looked under it, and on +both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her to look and +see what was on the top of it. + +She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of +the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue +caterpillar, which was sitting with its arms folded, quietly +smoking a long hookah, and taking not the least notice of her or +of anything else. + +[Illustration] + +For some time they looked at each other in silence: at last the +caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and languidly +addressed her. + +"Who are you?" said the caterpillar. + +This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation: Alice +replied rather shyly, "I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--at +least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I +must have been changed several times since that." + +"What do you mean by that?" said the caterpillar, "explain +yourself!" + +"I ca'n't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because +I'm not myself, you see." + +"I don't see," said the caterpillar. + +"I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly," Alice replied very +politely, "for I ca'n't understand it myself, and really to be so +many different sizes in one day is very confusing." + +"It isn't," said the caterpillar. + +"Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet," said Alice, "but +when you have to turn into a chrysalis, you know, and then after +that into a butterfly, I should think it'll feel a little queer, +don't you think so?" + +"Not a bit," said the caterpillar. + +"All I know is," said Alice, "it would feel queer to me." + +"You!" said the caterpillar contemptuously, "who are you?" + +Which brought them back again to the beginning of the +conversation: Alice felt a little irritated at the caterpillar +making such very short remarks, and she drew herself up and said +very gravely "I think you ought to tell me who you are, first." + +"Why?" said the caterpillar. + +Here was another puzzling question: and as Alice had no reason +ready, and the caterpillar seemed to be in a very bad temper, she +turned round and walked away. + +"Come back!" the caterpillar called after her, "I've something +important to say!" + +This sounded promising: Alice turned and came back again. + +"Keep your temper," said the caterpillar. + +"Is that all?" said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as +she could. + +"No," said the caterpillar. + +Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to +do, and perhaps after all the caterpillar might tell her +something worth hearing. For some minutes it puffed away at its +hookah without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took +the hookah out of its mouth again, and said "so you think you're +changed, do you?" + +"Yes, sir," said Alice, "I ca'n't remember the things I used to +know--I've tried to say "How doth the little busy bee" and it +came all different!" + +"Try and repeat "You are old, father William"," said the +caterpillar. + +Alice folded her hands, and began: + +[Illustration] + +1. + + "You are old, father William," the young man said, + "And your hair is exceedingly white: + And yet you incessantly stand on your head-- + Do you think, at your age, it is right?" + +2. + + "In my youth," father William replied to his son, + "I feared it might injure the brain + But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, + Why, I do it again and again." + +[Illustration] + +3. + + "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, + And have grown most uncommonly fat: + Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door-- + Pray what is the reason of that?" + +4. + + "In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his gray locks, + "I kept all my limbs very supple, + By the use of this ointment, five shillings the box-- + Allow me to sell you a couple." + +[Illustration] + +5. + + "You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak + For anything tougher than suet: + Yet you eat all the goose, with the bones and the beak-- + Pray, how did you manage to do it?" + +6. + + "In my youth," said the old man, "I took to the law, + And argued each case with my wife, + And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, + Has lasted the rest of my life." + +[Illustration] + +7. + + "You are old," said the youth; "one would hardly suppose + That your eye was as steady as ever: + Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose-- + What made you so awfully clever?" + +8. + + "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," + Said his father, "don't give yourself airs! + Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? + Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!" + +"That is not said right," said the caterpillar. + +"Not quite right, I'm afraid," said Alice timidly, "some of the +words have got altered." + +"It is wrong from beginning to end," said the caterpillar +decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes: the caterpillar +was the first to speak. + +"What size do you want to be?" it asked. + +"Oh, I'm not particular as to size," Alice hastily replied, "only +one doesn't like changing so often, you know." + +"Are you content now?" said the caterpillar. + +"Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn't +mind," said Alice, "three inches is such a wretched height to +be." + +"It is a very good height indeed!" said the caterpillar loudly +and angrily, rearing itself straight up as it spoke (it was +exactly three inches high). + +"But I'm not used to it!" pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone, +and she thought to herself "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so +easily offended!" + +"You'll get used to it in time," said the caterpillar, and it put +the hookah into its mouth, and began smoking again. + +This time Alice waited quietly until it chose to speak again: in +a few minutes the caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, +and got down off the mushroom, and crawled away into the grass, +merely remarking as it went; "the top will make you grow taller, +and the stalk will make you grow shorter." + +"The top of what? the stalk of what?" thought Alice. + +"Of the mushroom," said the caterpillar, just as if she had asked +it aloud, and in another moment was out of sight. + +Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, +and then picked it and carefully broke it in two, taking the +stalk in one hand, and the top in the other. + +[Illustration] + +"Which does the stalk do?" she said, and nibbled a little bit of +it to try; the next moment she felt a violent blow on her chin: +it had struck her foot! + +She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but as +she did not shrink any further, and had not dropped the top of +the mushroom, she did not give up hope yet. There was hardly room +to open her mouth, with her chin pressing against her foot, but +she did it at last, and managed to bite off a little bit of the +top of the mushroom. + + * * * * * + +"Come! my head's free at last!" said Alice in a tone of delight, +which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that +her shoulders were nowhere to be seen: she looked down upon an +immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of +a sea of green leaves that lay far below her. + +[Illustration] + +"What can all that green stuff be?" said Alice, "and where have +my shoulders got to? And oh! my poor hands! how is it I ca'n't +see you?" She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result +seemed to follow, except a little rustling among the leaves. Then +she tried to bring her head down to her hands, and was delighted +to find that her neck would bend about easily in every direction, +like a serpent. She had just succeeded in bending it down in a +beautiful zig-zag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, +which she found to be the tops of the trees of the wood she had +been wandering in, when a sharp hiss made her draw back: a large +pigeon had flown into her face, and was violently beating her +with its wings. + +[Illustration] + +"Serpent!" screamed the pigeon. + +"I'm not a serpent!" said Alice indignantly, "let me alone!" + +"I've tried every way!" the pigeon said desperately, with a kind +of sob: "nothing seems to suit 'em!" + +"I haven't the least idea what you mean," said Alice. + +"I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've +tried hedges," the pigeon went on without attending to her, "but +them serpents! There's no pleasing 'em!" + +Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use +in saying anything till the pigeon had finished. + +"As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs!" said the +pigeon, "without being on the look out for serpents, day and +night! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!" + +"I'm very sorry you've been annoyed," said Alice, beginning to +see its meaning. + +"And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood," said the +pigeon raising its voice to a shriek, "and was just thinking I +was free of 'em at last, they must needs come down from the sky! +Ugh! Serpent!" + +"But I'm not a serpent," said Alice, "I'm a--I'm a--" + +"Well! What are you?" said the pigeon, "I see you're trying to +invent something." + +"I--I'm a little girl," said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she +remembered the number of changes she had gone through. + +"A likely story indeed!" said the pigeon, "I've seen a good many +of them in my time, but never one with such a neck as yours! No, +you're a serpent, I know that well enough! I suppose you'll tell +me next that you never tasted an egg!" + +"I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very +truthful child, "but indeed I do'n't want any of yours. I do'n't +like them raw." + +"Well, be off, then!" said the pigeon, and settled down into its +nest again. Alice crouched down among the trees, as well as she +could, as her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and +several times she had to stop and untwist it. Soon she remembered +the pieces of mushroom which she still held in her hands, and set +to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the +other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until +she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual size. + +It was so long since she had been of the right size that it felt +quite strange at first, but she got quite used to it in a minute +or two, and began talking to herself as usual: "well! there's +half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm +never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another! +However, I've got to my right size again: the next thing is, to +get into that beautiful garden--how is that to be done, I +wonder?" + +Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a +doorway leading right into it. "That's very curious!" she +thought, "but everything's curious today: I may as well go in." +And in she went. + +Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the +little glass table: "now, I'll manage better this time" she said +to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and +unlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she set to work +eating the pieces of mushroom till she was about fifteen inches +high: then she walked down the little passage: and then--she +found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright +flowerbeds and the cool fountains. + +[Illustration] + + + + +Chapter IV + +[Illustration] + + +A large rose tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the +roses on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, +busily painting them red. This Alice thought a very curious +thing, and she went near to watch them, and just as she came up +she heard one of them say "look out, Five! Don't go splashing +paint over me like that!" + +"I couldn't help it," said Five in a sulky tone, "Seven jogged my +elbow." + +On which Seven lifted up his head and said "that's right, Five! +Always lay the blame on others!" + +"You'd better not talk!" said Five, "I heard the Queen say only +yesterday she thought of having you beheaded!" + +"What for?" said the one who had spoken first. + +"That's not your business, Two!" said Seven. + +"Yes, it is his business!" said Five, "and I'll tell him: it was +for bringing in tulip-roots to the cook instead of potatoes." + +Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun "well! Of all the +unjust things--" when his eye fell upon Alice, and he stopped +suddenly; the others looked round, and all of them took off their +hats and bowed low. + +"Would you tell me, please," said Alice timidly, "why you are +painting those roses?" + +Five and Seven looked at Two, but said nothing: Two began, in a +low voice, "why, Miss, the fact is, this ought to have been a red +rose tree, and we put a white one in by mistake, and if the Queen +was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off. So, you +see, we're doing our best, before she comes, to--" At this moment +Five, who had been looking anxiously across the garden called out +"the Queen! the Queen!" and the three gardeners instantly threw +themselves flat upon their faces. There was a sound of many +footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen. + +First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped +like the three gardeners, flat and oblong, with their hands and +feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were all +ornamented with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers +did. After these came the Royal children: there were ten of them, +and the little dears came jumping merrily along, hand in hand, in +couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the +guests, mostly kings and queens, among whom Alice recognised the +white rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling +at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her. +Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's crown on a +cushion, and, last of all this grand procession, came THE KING +AND QUEEN OF HEARTS. + +[Illustration] + +When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and +looked at her, and the Queen said severely "who is this?" She +said it to the Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in +reply. + +"Idiot!" said the Queen, turning up her nose, and asked Alice +"what's your name?" + +"My name is Alice, so please your Majesty," said Alice boldly, +for she thought to herself "why, they're only a pack of cards! I +needn't be afraid of them!" + +"Who are these?" said the Queen, pointing to the three gardeners +lying round the rose tree, for, as they were lying on their +faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of +the pack, she could not tell whether they were gardeners, or +soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her own children. + +"How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage, +"it's no business of mine." + +The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for +a minute, began in a voice of thunder "off with her--" + +"Nonsense!" said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen +was silent. + +The King laid his hand upon her arm, and said timidly "remember, +my dear! She is only a child!" + +The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave +"turn them over!" + +The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot. + +"Get up!" said the Queen, in a shrill loud voice, and the three +gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the +Queen, the Royal children, and everybody else. + +"Leave off that!" screamed the Queen, "you make me giddy." And +then, turning to the rose tree, she went on "what have you been +doing here?" + +"May it please your Majesty," said Two very humbly, going down on +one knee as he spoke, "we were trying--" + +"I see!" said the Queen, who had meantime been examining the +roses, "off with their heads!" and the procession moved on, three +of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the three unfortunate +gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection. + +"You sha'n't be beheaded!" said Alice, and she put them into her +pocket: the three soldiers marched once round her, looking for +them, and then quietly marched off after the others. + +"Are their heads off?" shouted the Queen. + +"Their heads are gone," the soldiers shouted in reply, "if it +please your Majesty!" + +"That's right!" shouted the Queen, "can you play croquet?" + +The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question +was evidently meant for her. + +"Yes!" shouted Alice at the top of her voice. + +"Come on then!" roared the Queen, and Alice joined the +procession, wondering very much what would happen next. + +"It's--it's a very fine day!" said a timid little voice: she was +walking by the white rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her +face. + +"Very," said Alice, "where's the Marchioness?" + +"Hush, hush!" said the rabbit in a low voice, "she'll hear you. +The Queen's the Marchioness: didn't you know that?" + +"No, I didn't," said Alice, "what of?" + +"Queen of Hearts," said the rabbit in a whisper, putting its +mouth close to her ear, "and Marchioness of Mock Turtles." + +"What are they?" said Alice, but there was no time for the +answer, for they had reached the croquet-ground, and the game +began instantly. + +Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in +all her life: it was all in ridges and furrows: the croquet-balls +were live hedgehogs, the mallets live ostriches, and the soldiers +had to double themselves up, and stand on their feet and hands, +to make the arches. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +The chief difficulty which Alice found at first was to manage her +ostrich: she got its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under +her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she +had got its neck straightened out nicely, and was going to give a +blow with its head, it would twist itself round, and look up into +her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help +bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and +was going to begin again, it was very confusing to find that the +hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling +away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or a furrow +in her way, wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and as +the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to +other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion +that it was a very difficult game indeed. + +The players all played at once without waiting for turns, and +quarrelled all the while at the tops of their voices, and in a +very few minutes the Queen was in a furious passion, and went +stamping about and shouting "off with his head!" of "off with her +head!" about once in a minute. All those whom she sentenced were +taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave +off being arches to do this, so that, by the end of half an hour +or so, there were no arches left, and all the players, except the +King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody, and under sentence +of execution. + +Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice +"have you seen the Mock Turtle?" + +"No," said Alice, "I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is." + +"Come on then," said the Queen, "and it shall tell you its +history." + +As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low +voice, to the company generally, "you are all pardoned." + +"Come, that's a good thing!" thought Alice, who had felt quite +grieved at the number of executions which the Queen had ordered. + +[Illustration] + +They very soon came upon a Gryphon, which lay fast asleep in the +sun: (if you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture): +"Up, lazy thing!" said the Queen, "and take this young lady to +see the Mock Turtle, and to hear its history. I must go back and +see after some executions I ordered," and she walked off, leaving +Alice with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the +creature, but on the whole she thought it quite as safe to stay +as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited. + +The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen +till she was out of sight: then it chuckled. "What fun!" said the +Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice. + +"What is the fun?" said Alice. + +"Why, she," said the Gryphon; "it's all her fancy, that: they +never executes nobody, you know: come on!" + +"Everybody says 'come on!' here," thought Alice as she walked +slowly after the Gryphon; "I never was ordered about so before in +all my life--never!" + +They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the +distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, +as they came nearer, Alice could here it sighing as if its heart +would break. She pitied it deeply: "what is its sorrow?" she +asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the +same words as before, "it's all its fancy, that: it hasn't got no +sorrow, you know: come on!" + +[Illustration] + +So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large +eyes full of tears, but said nothing. + +"This here young lady" said the Gryphon, "wants for to know your +history, she do." + +"I'll tell it," said the Mock Turtle, in a deep hollow tone, "sit +down, and don't speak till I've finished." + +So they sat down, and no one spoke for some minutes: Alice +thought to herself "I don't see how it can ever finish, if it +doesn't begin," but she waited patiently. + +"Once," said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, "I was a +real Turtle." + +These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by +an occasional exclamation of "hjckrrh!" from the Gryphon, and the +constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly +getting up and saying, "thank you, sir, for your interesting +story," but she could not help thinking there must be more to +come, so she sat still and said nothing. + +"When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on, more calmly, +though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in +the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him +Tortoise--" + +"Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" asked Alice. + +"We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock +Turtle angrily, "really you are very dull!" + +"You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple +question," added the Gryphon, and then they both sat silent and +looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth: at +last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, "get on, old fellow! +Don't be all day!" and the Mock Turtle went on in these words: + +"You may not have lived much under the sea--" ("I haven't," said +Alice,) "and perhaps you were never even introduced to a +lobster--" (Alice began to say "I once tasted--" but hastily +checked herself, and said "no, never," instead,) "so you can have +no idea what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!" + +"No, indeed," said Alice, "what sort of a thing is it?" + +"Why," said the Gryphon, "you form into a line along the sea +shore--" + +"Two lines!" cried the Mock Turtle, "seals, turtles, salmon, and +so on--advance twice--" + +"Each with a lobster as partner!" cried the Gryphon. + +[Illustration] + +"Of course," the Mock Turtle said, "advance twice, set to +partners--" + +"Change lobsters, and retire in same order--" interrupted the +Gryphon. + +"Then, you know," continued the Mock Turtle, "you throw the--" + +"The lobsters!" shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air. + +"As far out to sea as you can--" + +"Swim after them!" screamed the Gryphon. + +"Turn a somersault in the sea!" cried the Mock Turtle, capering +wildly about. + +"Change lobsters again!" yelled the Gryphon at the top of its +voice, "and then--" + +"That's all," said the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping its voice, +and the two creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things +all this time, sat down again very sadly and quietly, and looked +at Alice. + +"It must be a very pretty dance," said Alice timidly. + +"Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle. + +"Very much indeed," said Alice. + +"Come, let's try the first figure!" said the Mock Turtle to the +Gryphon, "we can do it without lobsters, you know. Which shall +sing?" + +"Oh! you sing!" said the Gryphon, "I've forgotten the words." + +[Illustration] + +So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now +and then treading on her toes when they came too close, and +waving their fore-paws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle +sang, slowly and sadly, these words: + + "Beneath the waters of the sea + Are lobsters thick as thick can be-- + They love to dance with you and me, + My own, my gentle Salmon!" + +The Gryphon joined in singing the chorus, which was: + + "Salmon come up! Salmon go down! + Salmon come twist your tail around! + Of all the fishes of the sea + There's none so good as Salmon!" + +"Thank you," said Alice, feeling very glad that the figure was +over. + +"Shall we try the second figure?" said the Gryphon, "or would you +prefer a song?" + +"Oh, a song, please!" Alice replied, so eagerly, that the Gryphon +said, in a rather offended tone, "hm! no accounting for tastes! +Sing her 'Mock Turtle Soup', will you, old fellow!" + +The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes +choked with sobs, to sing this: + + "Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, + Waiting in a hot tureen! + Who for such dainties would not stoop? + Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! + Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! + Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! + Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! + Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, + Beautiful beautiful Soup! + +"Chorus again!" cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just +begun to repeat it, when a cry of "the trial's beginning!" was +heard in the distance. + +"Come on!" cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand, he +hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song. + +"What trial is it?" panted Alice as she ran, but the Gryphon only +answered "come on!" and ran the faster, and more and more faintly +came, borne on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy +words: + + "Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, + Beautiful beautiful Soup!" + +The King and Queen were seated on their throne when they arrived, +with a great crowd assembled around them: the Knave was in +custody: and before the King stood the white rabbit, with a +trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other. + +"Herald! read the accusation!" said the King. + +On this the white rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and +then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows: + +[Illustration] + + "The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts + All on a summer day: + The Knave of Hearts he stole those tarts, + And took them quite away!" + +[Illustration] + +"Now for the evidence," said the King, "and then the sentence." + +"No!" said the Queen, "first the sentence, and then the +evidence!" + +"Nonsense!" cried Alice, so loudly that everybody jumped, "the +idea of having the sentence first!" + +"Hold your tongue!" said the Queen. + +"I won't!" said Alice, "you're nothing but a pack of cards! Who +cares for you?" + +At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down +upon her: she gave a little scream of fright, and tried to beat +them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in +the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some leaves +that had fluttered down from the trees on to her face. + +"Wake up! Alice dear!" said her sister, "what a nice long sleep +you've had!" + +"Oh, I've had such a curious dream!" said Alice, and she told her +sister all her Adventures Under Ground, as you have read them, +and when she had finished, her sister kissed her and said "it was +a curious dream, dear, certainly! But now run in to your tea: +it's getting late." + +So Alice ran off, thinking while she ran (as well she might) what +a wonderful dream it had been. + + * * * * * + +But her sister sat there some while longer, watching the setting +sun, and thinking of little Alice and her Adventures, till she +too began dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream: + +She saw an ancient city, and a quiet river winding near it along +the plain, and up the stream went slowly gliding a boat with a +merry party of children on board--she could hear their voices and +laughter like music over the water--and among them was another +little Alice, who sat listening with bright eager eyes to a tale +that was being told, and she listened for the words of the tale, +and lo! it was the dream of her own little sister. So the boat +wound slowly along, beneath the bright summer-day, with its merry +crew and its music of voices and laughter, till it passed round +one of the many turnings of the stream, and she saw it no more. + +Then she thought, (in a dream within the dream, as it were,) how +this same little Alice would, in the after-time, be herself a +grown woman: and how she would keep, through her riper years, the +simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would +gather around her other little children, and make their eyes +bright and eager with many a wonderful tale, perhaps even with +these very adventures of the little Alice of long-ago: and how +she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure +in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the +happy summer days. + +[Illustration] + +happy summer days. + + +THE END. + + * * * * * + + + + +_POSTSCRIPT._ + + +_The profits, if any, of this book will be given to Children's +Hospitals and Convalescent Homes for Sick Children; and the +accounts, down to June 30 in each year, will be published in the +St. James's Gazette, on the second Tuesday of the following +December._ + +_P.P.S.--The thought, so prettily expressed by the little boy, is +also to be found in Longfellow's "Hiawatha," where he appeals to +those who believe_ + + "_That the feeble hands and helpless,_ + _Groping blindly in the darkness_, + _Touch_ GOD'S _right hand in that darkness_, + _And are lifted up and strengthened_." + + * * * * * + + + + +"Who will Riddle me the How and the Why?" + + +_So questions one of England's sweetest singers. The "How?" has +already been told, after a fashion, in the verses prefixed to +"Alice in Wonderland"; and some other memories of that happy +summer day are set down, for those who care to see them, in this +little book--the germ that was to grow into the published volume. +But the "Why?" cannot, and need not, be put into words. Those for +whom a child's mind is a sealed book, and who see no divinity in +a child's smile, would read such words in vain: while for any one +that has ever loved one true child, no words are needed. For he +will have known the awe that falls on one in the presence of a +spirit fresh from_ GOD'S _hands, on whom no shadow of sin, and +but the outermost fringe of the shadow of sorrow, has yet fallen: +he will have felt the bitter contrast between the haunting +selfishness that spoils his best deeds and the life that is but +an overflowing love--for I think a child's_ first _attitude to +the world is a simple love for all living things: and he will +have learned that the best work a man can do is when he works for +love's sake only, with no thought of name, or gain, or earthly +reward. No deed of ours, I suppose, on this side the grave, is +really unselfish: yet if one can put forth all one's powers in a +task where nothing of reward is hoped for but a little child's +whispered thanks, and the airy touch of a little child's pure +lips, one seems to come somewhere near to this._ + +_There was no idea of publication in my mind when I wrote this +little book_: that _was wholly an afterthought, pressed on me by +the "perhaps too partial friends" who always have to bear the +blame when a writer rushes into print: and I can truly say that +no praise of theirs has ever given me one hundredth part of the +pleasure it has been to think of the sick children in hospitals +(where it has been a delight to me to send copies) forgetting, +for a few bright hours, their pain and weariness--perhaps +thinking lovingly of the unknown writer of the tale--perhaps even +putting up a childish prayer (and oh, how much it needs!) for one +who can but dimly hope to stand, some day, not quite out of sight +of those pure young faces, before the great white throne. "I am +very sure," writes a lady-visitor at a Home for Sick Children, +"that there will be many loving earnest prayers for you on Easter +morning from the children._" + +_I would like to quote further from her letters, as embodying a +suggestion that may perhaps thus come to the notice of some one +able and willing to carry it out._ + +"_I want you to send me one of your Easter Greetings for a very +dear child who is dying at our Home. She is just fading away, and +'Alice' has brightened some of the weary hours in her illness, +and I know that letter would be such a delight to her--especially +if you would put 'Minnie' at the top, and she could know you had +sent it for her._ She _knows_ you, _and would so value it.... She +suffers so much that I long for what I know would so please her." +... "Thank you very much for sending me the letter, and for +writing Minnie's name.... I am quite sure that all these children +will say a loving prayer for the 'Alice-man' on Easter Day: and I +am sure the letter will help the little ones to the real Easter +joy. How I do wish that you, who have won the hearts and +confidence of so many children, would do for them what is so very +near my heart, and yet what no one will do, viz. write a book for +children about_ GOD _and themselves, which is_ not _goody, and +which begins at the right end, about religion, to make them see +what it really is. I get quite miserable very often over the +children I come across: hardly any of them have an idea of_ +really _knowing that_ GOD _loves them, or of loving and confiding +in Him. They will love and trust_ me, _and be sure that I want +them to be happy, and will not let them suffer more than is +necessary: but as for going to Him in the same way, they would +never think of it. They are dreadfully afraid of Him, if they +think of Him at all, which they generally only do when they have +been naughty, and they look on all connected with Him as very +grave and dull: and, when they are full of fun and thoroughly +happy, I am sure they unconsciously hope He is not looking. I am +sure I don't wonder they think of Him in this way, for people_ +never _talk of Him in connection with what makes their little +lives the brightest. If they are naughty, people put on solemn +faces, and say He is very angry or shocked, or something which +frightens them: and, for the rest, He is talked about only in a +way that makes them think of church and having to be quiet. As +for being taught that all Joy and all Gladness and Brightness is +His Joy--that He is wearying for them to be happy, and is not +hard and stern, but always doing things to make their days +brighter, and caring for them so tenderly, and wanting them to +run to Him with_ all _their little joys and sorrows, they are +not taught that. I do so long to make them trust Him as they +trust us, to feel that He will 'take their part' as they do with +us in their little woes, and to go to Him in their plays and +enjoyments and not only when they say their prayers. I was quite +grateful to one little dot, a short time ago, who said to his +mother 'when I am in bed, I put out my hand to see if I can feel_ +JESUS _and my angel. I thought perhaps_ in the dark _they'd touch +me, but they never have yet.' I do so want them to_ want _to go +to Him, and to feel how, if He is there, it_ must _be happy._" + +_Let me add--for I feel I have drifted into far too serious a vein +for a preface to a fairy-tale--the deliciously naive remark of a +very dear child-friend, whom I asked, after an acquaintance of two +or three days, if she had read 'Alice' and the 'Looking-Glass.' "Oh +yes," she replied readily, "I've read both of them! And I think" +(this more slowly and thoughtfully) "I think 'Through the +Looking-Glass' is_ more _stupid than 'Alice's Adventures.' Don't_ +you _think so?" But this was a question I felt it would be hardly +discreet for me to enter upon._ + +_LEWIS CARROLL._ + +_Dec._ 1886. + + * * * * * + + + + +AN EASTER GREETING + +TO + +EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES + +"Alice." + + +DEAR CHILD, + +_Please to fancy, if you can, that you are reading a real letter, +from a real friend whom you have seen, and whose voice you can +seem to yourself to hear wishing you, as I do now with all my +heart, a happy Easter._ + +_Do you know that delicious dreamy feeling when one first wakes +on a summer morning, with the twitter of birds in the air, and +the fresh breeze coming in at the open window--when, lying lazily +with eyes half shut, one sees as in a dream green boughs waving, +or waters rippling in a golden light? It is a pleasure very near +to sadness, bringing tears to one's eyes like a beautiful picture +or poem. And is not that a Mother's gentle hand that undraws your +curtains, and a Mother's sweet voice that summons you to rise? To +rise and forget, in the bright sunlight, the ugly dreams that +frightened you so when all was dark--to rise and enjoy another +happy day, first kneeling to thank that unseen Friend, who sends +you the beautiful sun_? + +_Are these strange words from a writer of such tales as "Alice"? +And is this a strange letter to find in a book of nonsense? It +may be so. Some perhaps may blame me for thus mixing together +things grave and gay; others may smile and think it odd that any +one should speak of solemn things at all, except in church and on +a Sunday: but I think--nay, I am sure--that some children will +read this gently and lovingly, and in the spirit in which I have +written it._ + +_For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two +halves--to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it +out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you +think He cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only +tones of prayer--and that He does not also love to see the lambs +leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the +children, as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent +laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever +rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn +cathedral?_ + +_And if I have written anything to add to those stores of +innocent and healthy amusement that are laid up in books for the +children I love so well, it is surely something I may hope to +look back upon without shame and sorrow (as how much of life must +then be recalled!) when_ my _turn comes to walk through the +valley of shadows._ + +_This Easter sun will rise on you, dear child, feeling your "life +in every limb," and eager to rush out into the fresh morning +air_--_and many an Easter-day will come and go, before it finds +you feeble and gray-headed, creeping wearily out to bask once +more in the sunlight--but it is good, even now, to think +sometimes of that great morning when the "Sun of Righteousness +shall arise with healing in his wings."_ + +_Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that +you will one day see a brighter dawn than this--when lovelier +sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling +waters--when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter +tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new +and glorious day--and when all the sadness, and the sin, that +darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the +dreams of a night that is past!_ + +_Your affectionate friend_, + +_LEWIS CARROLL_. + +EASTER, 1876. + + * * * * * + + + + +CHRISTMAS GREETINGS. + +[FROM A FAIRY TO A CHILD.] + + + Lady dear, if Fairies may + For a moment lay aside + Cunning tricks and elfish play, + 'Tis at happy Christmas-tide. + + We have heard the children say-- + Gentle children, whom we love-- + Long ago, on Christmas Day, + Came a message from above. + + Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, + They remember it again-- + Echo still the joyful sound + "Peace on earth, good-will to men!" + + Yet the hearts must childlike be + Where such heavenly guests abide: + Unto children, in their glee, + All the year is Christmas-tide! + + Thus, forgetting tricks and play + For a moment, Lady dear, + We would wish you, if we may, + Merry Christmas, glad New Year! + +LEWIS CARROLL. + +_Christmas, 1867._ + + * * * * * + + + + +WORKS BY LEWIS CARROLL. + +PUBLISHED BY + +MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON. + + +ALICE'S ADVENTURES _IN_ WONDERLAND. 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